My daughter was just a baby at that time, very, very little.
And I always say that essentially it was her birth that awakened me to study this terrific
science spiritual practice.
And a friend of mine, Terry, who I was working with at that time, said, come on with me,
let's go down to the Cape.
We're going to go to an astrology class.
And I said, okay.
You know, I think that would be fun.
So I went with them and we went down to Plymouth and Robin Menton, who is a medical astrologer,
was teaching a class.
And so I took part in this two-hour class and the book that she used was A Cosmic Science
by Isabel Hickey.
And that has become my Bible for many, many years.
That was my first astrology book.
A great, great, incredible book.
I highly recommend that to anyone who wants to study astrology.
However, from there I ended up scheduling a reading with Robin Menton and I was so much
in shock of what she told me.
How could someone based upon my month, day, year, and time of birth, and city, and state,
tell me all this such personal information about myself?
I couldn't even drive my car home.
I was in such shock, you know, of how accurate she was.
And so I got to know more.
I've got to know more about this.
So I did get the book A Cosmic Science by Isabel Hickey.
Would work all day, have a little, you know, my infant daughter.
And at night after she was in bed I was reading, highlighting, reading.
This book looks like it's been through World War III.
However, that was how I got started and I just couldn't stop because I'm a Gemini and
I have that type of mind that needs to know more.
You give me information that's like food for me.
And astrology is the study of the language of the stars.
It's the energy, the vibration.
And it is actually, I call it, this is my way of describing it, life's GPS.
And you know, you punch in, I want to go here in a GPS and it tells you how to get there.
Astrology is essentially the same thing.
With that information that I said before, your month, your day, your year, your time
and your city and state, you create a chart that is your soul chart.
It tells what your life is about, where you're going in life, what is, what is, where are
the challenges going to be, where are my gifts.
And a good astrology will help you to manage those bits and pieces and those aspects of
your life.
So that's what I do.
So is there one chart that someone would have or there are numerous charts?
Do you have a birth chart?
Do you have a, how does that work?
Or how would that work if someone were interested in finding out or having a reading or, not
a reading, but what is it called?
A reading or a consultation, right?
Whenever someone calls me to schedule a reading, the first thing I get is that information,
their birth information.
I create a birth chart and that is created based upon that information and it allows
me to create a chart, which is, we call it their soul map or their life's GPS.
And from there, that is the foundation or the root or of where we can go anywhere with
that chart.
We can look at transits, which are how the outside world is affecting them at this time
and moving forward.
Most people will look at three to six months ahead.
You can do progress chart.
A progress chart is the soul's progression, how the soul has progressed.
From there, we can tell major life changes, pinpoint them to the day when they started
or when they developed.
We can do orrery charts.
Orrery charts are the birth of a question.
Upon the birth of a question, you can create a chart and read that chart.
It's incredible the amount of detail and information that comes from that type of chart.
So there are many different types of charts you can do based upon what your need is.
And do people get it done for their whole family, like the mother might get it done
for her and the husband and the children?
I've had families do that before, and it's amazing the connections and what carries on
through the children from the parent, from the grandparent to the child to the grandchildren.
It's amazing the patterns to study that.
It's really interesting to look at that and look at it in depth with the families.
Because I do it in my office.
I have my husband's, myself, my daughter's, my son's chart up on my bulletin board.
Those are my family.
That's my inner circle.
We do everything in my household based upon astrology.
Go, stop, hold on, wait a minute.
It's an amazing, amazing tool.
It has changed my life.
It's totally changed my life.
It's brought an incredible understanding of the universal creator.
All things come from, I like to put it in this way, Ramona says the same thing.
May only things come to me through God or our creator, ourself.
I look at astrology as the language of the heavens, its direction, its guidance.
Being a Gemini, I'm a lot more on the intellectual side, but I am also very intuitive.
Psychic, if you will, if you want to label it that.
I call it more of a visionary because your intuition, when you study something such as
astrology, it's only going to enhance that voice.
It's only going to enhance your skills of intuition.
But it is a science.
It is a math.
It is an incredible study which will never end.
How do you feel that astrology can tell you that maybe a card reading cannot?
Astrology, what I have found is that I can go much deeper into the psyche of that person
and their makeup.
Whereas psychic, you're working based upon visions on pictures that you're getting, on
what you feel from the person's energy that you're working directly with.
Astrology, we're working with that as well, but mainly with a map, that person's map.
If their birth information is correct, you can go deep, deep, deep, deep, deep.
It's interesting, you always want to offer a way out if there's a difficult area.
Okay, how can we work with this?
We're not going to be able to run and hide from it.
If we do, it's just going to come back anyway.
It's part of our life path.
So you can go so much deeper into that person's psyche and their makeup and offer, I believe
you can offer more tools of management for life.
And how could someone find out a little bit about what you do in your charts?
What's your website?
www.turntothestars.com.
And now that we're talking about turntothestars.com, how did you, like myself, get into public
access in New Hampshire now?
Yeah, I was invited to be a guest on a show at Manchester TV, public access in the city.
And being a guest on that TV show, I was, this is fun.
This is so fun.
I really like this.
And then I was offered, because they liked me at the TV station, they offered me a spot
to do a TV show.
And I'd already, this is about almost four years ago now.
I'd already been studying astrology for a long, long time and doing professional readings.
And I thought, wow, this is another way that I can reach people.
I can expand and I can help people in a much more expanded way this way.
Because I do on TV, on the TV show, I do the universal chart.
I will do the chart of the United States and talk about future potentials and tendencies.
Wow.
Yeah.
So that was a really great step forward.
And then I was called by NBC to do the royal wedding in Boston.
That was a lot of fun too.
So what did you do for them?
I looked at the charts of the royal marriage and I talked about their signs.
Actually they were at my office for an hour and a half and they used about three minutes
on TV, but talked about their future, about who they are, that they're best friends, about
their future potentials and tendencies.
So that was a lot of fun to do.
Oh, that must have been.
Yeah.
And that was a nice way.
So your show is half an hour?
It is.
Okay.
And what is your format like?
The format varies because I have guests also on the show, but I try to keep one or two
days out of the month just to do the forecast, to talk about what's going on, talk about
what's coming, to provide tools for management, for life management for people overall.
Which is right now, today is November 27th and we have a full moon if you look up in
the sky at the night.
This is actually a lunar eclipse that is present.
That full moon is actually manifesting.
It's like a marker or marking the framework of six months of change in each of our lives.
So whatever that framework is, you'll see that framework grow each month from the new
moon to the full moon.
But it's a great, it's really great to look at that foundation for anybody because it
really does give you a guide of what to expect, what the potentials and the tendencies are
over the course of the next six months.
So this one right here is a pretty interesting one.
And it does offer us the communication.
Communication is going to be the key moving forward, especially when it comes to emotions.
That's wonderful.
So you are once a week.
Yep.
Okay.
And how would people see you?
They can see you on the web and then they can see you in that town.
Yeah, I'm actually in the city of Manchester four times a week on MPTV.
It's actually MPTS.
And Dairy also.
Dairy Public Assist also runs a TV show.
And that is on Thursday at 3.30 and Saturday at 3.30.
And also on YouTube, we've also expanded, YouTube is lighting up the world with Turn
to the Stars right now.
That's wonderful.
Isn't that great?
That's a great facilitator.
Yeah.
It really is.
I enjoy using it myself.
Yeah.
And it does offer a lot.
Now you've had some interesting guests.
You just had an author on, can you just talk briefly about maybe two or three of the guests
that really stand out for you, let's say in the last two years.
Yeah.
Just narrow it down a little bit.
Well, one of the most exciting ones that we've just had recently was Sharon Ward from
Guernsey, which is an island just below England and above France.
And she wrote a book called Albutain's Treasure.
And she's also an astrologer and she's also a nutritionist.
And her book is phenomenal.
She contacted me in the summer and sent me her book.
I read the book.
After chapter seven, the book was not set down.
It was incredible.
And this is a work of fiction or nonfiction or it's a biography or what is it?
Well, she tells you it's fiction, but after reading the book, I said, you know, Sharon,
you channeled this book.
It is a work of fiction, but it is based upon some real true facts in her life.
And it's a really great book for anybody, anybody.
But it is about, you know, I shouldn't tell you, just let you read it.
It is about an ancient astrologer, Albutain, and this young man, Ed, who becomes his apprentice.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
So it's really well written.
It's intense.
It's captivating, but it touches your heart.
And what's the name of it again?
Albutain's Treasure.
Treasure.
And her name, the author?
Sharon Ward.
Sharon Ward.
And if you go to my website, it's right on the front page.
Even the TV show is right on the front page.
Perfect.
You can check it out and listen to her, and now that interview was done via telephone.
It was.
It was.
And who else?
Who else?
We've had Ramona Garcia, who is one of the, has been voted one of the top ten psychics
in the world.
Her and Marlene Mercedes have been on the show, and they're coming back again very soon.
We've had, I've had Sheila Clark, who's also an astrologer friend.
I've had Pet Psychics.
I've had, or photographers, or artists.
There's so many.
We have such a huge network around Turn to the Stars.
We've had Peter Shampoo, who's from Massachusetts, from Greenfield, in fact, and he is a, he
works with the land and the, I'm going blank on his actual title, but he, he has been on
the show a couple times, and he's a really interesting, brilliant man.
Let me think who else we've had on the show.
We've, it's just been, if you look on Turn to the Stars under astrology links, you'll
see a lot of those people on there are part of the network and have been on the TV show.
Yeah.
Do you do authors that maybe do books that are not related to astrology or psychic phenomenon
or something like that?
Or do you stay within that?
That net.
That, yeah, that niche.
I've mostly stayed within that niche, and, but I, if I meet someone and it keeps coming
up and I feel like what they have or what they have to say is important to the world,
I will, you know, invite them to be on the show.
Because we're all human, we're all here together, and where we're going, we're all going together.
And what is, give us your website again.
It's www.turntothestars.com.
If someone were to be looking to have a chart done or be taught or understand it, what,
what should they be looking for in that person?
Those that they were looking for a mentor to learn, for instance, as opposed to having
a chart done.
And we can go through what to look for for having a chart done.
But if you, someone wanted to learn the skill and have a mentor, what, what should they
be looking for in that person?
What qualities or?
Well, they, they should look, be looking for positive ethics and morals in that teacher.
They should be looking for somebody who has been studying this for a good amount of time.
They should be looking for somebody that they feel a connection to.
Structure, for me, I would look for somebody who has structure and good teaching ability.
Get a referral from another student.
That would be something I'd highly recommend.
I do have a book, an ebook out on my website, which I wrote, which is 20 classes long, which
is astrology 101.
And I'm teaching that actually in the dairy schools in the adult ed in January and in
conquered.
So, you know, those, those are important things to look for someone who, you know, maybe they've
had a reading with that person also and they like their style.
Positive, positive, positive.
And, you know, I, I believe that there should only be one source from which that information
comes.
And, and I always see it from this direction.
That's how I would describe it.
But it's, it's just, you know, when you're working in this field, you're helping other
people to understand what their life is about.
And it is very important to be that positive inspiration to people that you meet and offer
them tools for managing their life.
And with that said, I think that there's a lot of things you can look at there and considering
who you'd like to teach you.
There are different societies like NCGR, which is the National Council for Geo Cosmic Research,
which there is a Boston chapter.
I've been a member of that for many, many years.
And I learned a lot through their seminars.
They mostly self-taught.
However, I do, I'm very, very particular that I'm following the standards, you know, and
that I'm respectful and ethical and keeping the readings that I do private.
Right.
What are the things that you would look for if you wanted to get a reading, if you wanted
to get a chart or reading?
What are the characteristics that you would look for in a person giving you that?
That's a really good question because I just want to give you this piece of information.
My family, we do psychicalistic fairs.
We've been doing them for two and a half years at the Manchester, the yard restaurant.
And when I interview someone for doing readings there, I will ask them to do a 15-minute reading
for me.
And I'm looking for positive, somebody who's going to be providing me with tools for coping.
And if I'm also looking for somebody who's been around for a while, who has some experience.
But mostly what I look for in a reader is that they're not only just telling me what
their visions are or what they're seeing, but also management.
How can I manage that?
How can I, and if I'm seeing that, that person is offering those tools, offering those ideas,
that skill set, then I would say that's somebody who I want to get a reading from.
Okay.
So you like a person that has, that isn't just specifically, that is objective and just
specifically says boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, and that's it.
Yeah.
You need detail.
You need detail and you need a personal approach, a very positive approach for reading because
you feel that that leaves, that allows the person who's getting the reading to have a
higher access to themselves in a more positive way.
Yeah.
Does that sound right?
Yeah.
And to add to that, I would add compassion, that they have empathy for another human being.
That's very, very important because we all have, we're humans.
We're sensitive, we're emotional, and that's part of our makeup.
And if you don't have a reader that has compassion for another human being, I would go the other
way.
It's important.
That would not be the road for you.
Yeah.
Tell us again, because we have five more minutes before we wrap.
This is how fast the time goes, isn't it?
Wonderful.
Yeah.
It's been so nice having you here.
You're just a nice blossom of light, and remind me of a flower.
Tell us again about your show and when it's on and where it is and your website, and then
just a quick recap of what you do with your skills again.
Okay.
Well, Turn to the Stars is on in Manchester TV, Public Access, Channel 23, and it is on
four times a week.
Usually if you go to Turn to the Stars, www.TurnToTheStars, and you click on Astrology Television, you
will get our list of times that it plays on TV in Manchester.
And you'll also see Dairy TV when it's played, the schedule there.
But also, what happens with Turn to the Stars is I take the show home on a DVD, and I convert
it and I put it up on my website under the archives and out on YouTube.
And we're really excited about YouTube because we can just see, you know, how they give you
the statistics.
We see that a lot of people are watching, so we're happy about that.
So Turn to the Stars is an exciting part of what I do, the TV show.
But also I do teach astrology, Astrology 101.
There's an e-book on my website.
The thing I love to do the most are personal individual readings.
And those can be done by phone.
I record the reading, and the person is sent that by email.
So they have it for their records or for their review, which is there's lots of information
in a reading.
So that's a good thing.
Yeah, you don't always remember everything at the time, yeah.
Right.
But teaching.
And we're also doing something else at Turn to the Stars with Ramona.
One of my most important intentions moving ahead is to make sure that we help each other
along the way.
Where we're going, the Age of Aquarius, which we're right on the cusp of birthing, is about
unitedness.
It is about everybody helping each other.
And that's so important to me.
And so Turn to the Stars is much about that.
It's not just, you know, yes, I am the astrologer.
I'm the one that you'll talk to when you do the readings.
But my friends, my community mean so much.
And so we want to make sure that we're recognizing them wholeheartedly.
So that's a big part of who I am and where we're going and what Turn to the Stars is.
Turn to the Stars actually is an interesting, if I have a minute to just tell you the story,
the name Turn to the Stars came from my, I was trying to figure out a name.
What can I name my business?
My husband said, I'll give it a weekend, you'll figure it out.
I'm sitting watching TV with my daughter on a Sunday and the movie The Dragon Slayer comes
on.
And if you know that story, there's a soldier and he fights with this dragon, many, many
battles and the dragon gets slain.
And the soldier is just heartbroken.
So he says to the spirit of the dragon, what am I going to do without you?
And the dragon's spirit says to him, turn to the stars, you'll find your answers there.
And I knew, my hair stood up in my head, I got the goosebumps and I said, that's the
name of my business.
So that's where it came from.
Isn't that nice?
Yeah.
Oh, something you can share.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So, yeah, so I think I've covered most anything.
Oh, we are doing one other thing.
We are sponsoring and I'm actually joining Ramona Garcia and Marlene in teaching ESP development
for the beginner and the intermediate and the advanced.
So we have February 23rd, a class going on and we have another one on April 27th.
Full day intensive tools that you can use in living your life to the fullest moving
ahead.
So it's something you'll never forget and be so happy to have learned.
So those are other things that we're doing as well.
And all that information can be got on the website.
So if anyone wants to look that up.
And I know the classes can be very intense, but people should not shy away from them because
it's all just really about re-centering yourself and opening yourself up.
And many people are already open, so it's just like this practice of using a muscle
that you haven't used, you know, in order to just, you know, for those who are open
to it to just kind of guide you to wherever you need to be.
You're going there anyway, you know.
This might be going, you know, with some box of tissues and, you know, a skateboard to
get you there a little bit quicker, you know, in your head type of thing.
I've taken classes with Ramona Garcia and so has my son.
And they are, they happen to be one on one classes.
They were very intense, but very focused for specifically what we wanted to do.
So I can just imagine that with the three of you there, it's quite a pow wow.
And I thank you again so much for coming on.
And we'll be turning to the side.
Thank you for having me.
I am Ramona and you've been watching Ramona Interviews.
Have a wonderful week.